A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

(Πασιφάη).

1. A daughter of Helios and Perseis, and a sister of Circe and Aeetes, was the wife of Milnos, by whom shle was the mother of Androgeos, Catreus, Deucalion, Glaucus, Minotaurus, Acalle, Xenodice, Ariadne, and Phaedra. (A pollon. Rhod. 3.999, &c.; Apollod. 1.9.1, 3.1.2; Ov. Met. 15.501 ; Cic. De Nat. Dcor. 3.19; Paus. 5.25.9.)